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St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12

". on one of his journeys, and Who
came home greatly disappointed; for
he found the King had arms like other
men, while he had always understood
that His Majesty's right arm was a
| lion, and his left unicorn. Arms of
! various kinds form large proportion
of our modern signs, often as much as
| ten per cent, and sometimes double
that in particular districts. As a gen.
eral rule, where a house has displayed
for many years together an armorial
sign, the "coatn will be found to be
that of the largest landowner or most
prominent parsonage in the district.
When the general knowledge of
hcraldry began to decline, and armorial
bearings fell largely into diSuse, many
houses, formerly known as the Some
body 5 Arms probably came gradually
to be called after, and distinguished by,
the most prominent 'chargc' in the
coat, or after the ''crcst' of one of the
supporters" which might have been.
in heraldic blazon, a lion gules (red), a
boar azure (bluc), q white hart, or u
rose crowned. Thus undoubtedly or
ignated many strange signs which are
still common.
The personal "badgcs" adopted by
kings and great mobiles in early times,
and worn on the arm by their servants
and retainers, have also given origin to
many similar signs. Thus, the White
Hart-one of our very commonest sign
board devices-represents the favorite
badge of King Richard H., although
the white hart has also a legendary ex-
istence. The Rose and Crown-anoth-
er extremely abundant sign-owes its
existence to the fact that most of
the earlier English sovereigns used
rose crowned as a badge. The
Blue Boar, the badge of the once power
full De Veres, Earls of Oxford, is to this
day commoner in the county of Essex,
where lay the family seat, than any
where else. The Red Lion, another of
our very commonest signs, is probably
in the same way derived from the per-
sonal badge of John of Gaunt, Duke of
Lancaster, though it doubtless repre-
SCENTS also the lion in the arms of Scot |
land. AS rule, Enthusiastically colored |
animals will be found to have had an
heraldic origin. Creatures in their
natural colors either may or may not |
have been derived from heraldry; thus, !
the Greyhound, though it has figured |
both as the badge, and one or both of
the supporters of the arms of several
English sovereigns, may owe its fire.
quent appearance on the sign-board to
its modern use in the coursing-ield. In
the case of the White Horse, too, very
common sign, it is difficult now to de-
eide whether it represents the White
Horse of the Saxons, or that of the
House of Hanover, or one of the many
white horses to be seen in our Streets
Chambers Journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12
LOST YOUTH,

II want the moon," we Iisping said;
81 want it in my little bed"
When older grown we tossed ball
Skyward, and hoped star would fall.
Bring me ladder long, and
Will ride the clouds and climb the sky;
TIL peep into the crimson west,
Where the great sun has gone to rest"
In youth we entered "No Mans Land"
And plucked the fruit ripe to each hand;
By Songs bright sea on singing sand
Rose our fair castles, frail as grand.
To-day the moon is high in heaven;
The stars to mortals are not given
For shining toys Cares drifting sand
Has choked the path to mo Mans Land"
Friend in dim wood and shady lane
We loiter. seeking youth in vain;
But somewhere she is waiting yet,
Her rosy feet with May dew wet,
We hear the far-off thrilling flute,
And Sigh: the music is not mute,
But not for us the magic strain;
She will not come this way again.
helen Irwi~e Grigg.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12
EDUCATED FARMERS.
What They Have Done for the Advance
ment of Rural Interests.

what They Have Done for the Advance
ment of Rural Interests.
While it is not to be inferred that
| farmers are uneducated, or in any
sense inferior to other classes in intel.
ligence, yet there is room for greater
| educational expansion, which should
not be overlooked. 1t has been but a
decade since "book-farmi ng' was de-
rided as a pastime, resulting in great
expense and no profit; but at the pres
ent day ''book-farming' is considered
Indispensable in conducting practical
operations on the farm. The "book-
farmer" as the phase is understood,
may not have been an adept in the use
of implements, may have lacked skill
at the plow and in feed
ing, and knowledge of the
proper mode of expenditure;
but while he was lacking in practical
experience, I'll was always aiming for
the best of every thing, and, by expert.
ments, educated his neighbors. Though
he knew nothing about milking COW,
yet he could, at a glance, separate the
different breeds of stock and mate them
for the best results; and his knowledge
of fertilizers, varieties of plants and
peculiarities of soils was often far in
advance of his more practical neigh"
bors. While his efforts were often
failures, they always tended to bette.
system of cultivation and the introduc.
ton of superior stock in the section in
which he operated
If the skilled and practical artisan
considers it his duty to make study OF
architecture, mechanical drawings and
specifications, with the advantage of
books giving the experience and designs
of others, there is no reason for the
farmer to refuse kindred privileges for
himself. A knowledge of the progress
made in his calling can be gained only
by study and practical experiment
upon the theories advanced. There
are hundreds of farmers who are ex-
perts in the management of dairy,
yet who give little or no attention to
the classification of stock; and some of
the most successful horticulturists have
no idea of how the varieties of fruit
cultivated by them were produced.
Though farmers, like all other class
es, may be benefited by knowledge,
they are not as slow as is generally
Every season there are a
great number of conventions held to
consider agricultural subjects, but the
masses are best educated not only by
the study of agricultural literature, but
by meetings in each locality. 1t is at
such meetings that the practical and
theoretical can be compared, and the
and opinions of every
member given. A great advantage of
local meetings is the facility of inspec-
ton of the farms of such sections and
direct comparison of the growing
crops, as well as the livestock pos
sessed by each, which affords an oppor-
tunity also to the younger members, in
fusing in them a spirit of progress
which is sure to result in benefit in the
future, and to render agriculture more
and more profitable. -PhiIadeIoAia Rec
ord.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The people OF Paris Att 1000, 900
larks every year.
The cook in an English clergy
mans family has just received u legacy
of 81, 100000.
1t is reported that last year more
/ than 100000 emigrants went to the Ar
gcntne Republic, most Of them from
Italy.
King Kalakaua of the Hawaiian
Islands has gambled away $4,000 de-
posted by poor people in the Postal
Savings Bank.
Sir Thomas Gladstone, brother of
the eX-Prcmier, is Il strong Conserya-
tive, and an unequivocal opponent Of
home rule in Ireland.
"A French crank estimate of hui
mainly i'll 1886 footS up "a lot of fools
who spend most of their time and
money in making iron balls to 90
through steel plates and in making
steel plates to keep out iron balls.
The Duke of Dcvonshire, the Duke
of Westminster and the Duke of Bed
ford have incomes ranging from ST.
800 to $2,500,O00 a year. No one
thinks of trying to estimate their pos
sessions in any other way.
The other day at Oxford man
who had insisted on keeping bees was
plainly told by a local dignitary that
his bees must be sent away because a
gentleman commoner had Just been
stung He replied instantly: "N1r.
Dean, assure You that you are doing
us great injustice. l know that bee
well. He is not mine at all, but be-
longs to Mr.. Bigg, of Merton.'
To show how enormously the cost
of tirst-class iron clad has increased
of late years in England, Lord Brassey
states that the propelling machinery of
the Howe has cost $4,000, as against
the $4,000 of the Devastation; and
the latter ship has no hydraulic ma
chincry, which in the Howe adds to the
expense to the tune of $4,000.
AT the Lord Mayors banquet about
400 quarts of turtle soup are provided,
140 dishes of game, 400 chickens and
capons, 50 turkeys, SO hams, $50 lobster
salads, 60 meat pies, 120 quarts jellies
and POO dishes of pastry. Two great
barons of beef. each $50 pounds in
weight, arc features of the feast. A bout
four hundred people prepare and wait
on the feast.
According to L'E1ectnicien, NJ. H.
Dunville pledged his scientific reputa-
ton to the accuracy of the following
observations: IF two glasses of water
be placed, one upon tho north pole of
powerful magnet, and the other upon
the south pole, in four or five minutes
the former acquires a slight alkaline
reaction, while that on the south pole
becomes slightly acid
Rene Goblet, the new French Pre-
mier, is described by the London Truth
as "a beautifully Tom Thumb,
with a big head, staring and prominent
blue eyes, a long and snubby-ended |
nose, and an air of splendid self-con-
fidence He is as aggressive as a game
cock. fOnd OF badGerlng Clerical as a |
dog is of worrying cat; no Red Radi-
cal. but a reduced copy in Republican
surroundings of the skeptical, liberal
and frondeur bourgeois of Louis
Philippe's time. Nine. Goblet is tall
He seems, on entering a
behind her, like a tor
pedo-boat in the wake Of a large
steamer
St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12

While inspecting the Binghampton
toboggan slide as it was being wet
down the other day, prominent citi-
zen of the place went too near the edge,
lost his balance and slid down the one
hundred and sixty-five feet of wet and
very slippery ice at tremendous rate
of speed.-N Y San.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12

The yacht Thistle, now building at
Glasgow, is specially designed to COM
pete for Americas cup next season.
Thistle give newspaper jokers another
opportunity to get off a lot of diabolica:
puns anent the .-Norristow
Herald.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12

The newest kind of a thief is one
in Bellevue, O., who steals thermome-
tiers Observation-Disclosures Lcadcr.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12

Miss Flim-Have you read Mr.
Rattlebrane's novel? Tell me, how die
it come ont? Fogg-I suspect h
had it published at his own risk
Boston transcript.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12
ENGLISH SIGNS.
Rise and Decline Of an Important
institution"

The Legislation Enacted to Save London
From Observation-Disclosures of An
cient Landmarks-Heraldic De-
vices-T<ingly Badges Adopted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-23
GENERAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Tertalta Gold and Silver Mining
company has brough: suit against James
Gordon Bennett for alleged libel, claim
ing 100000 damages. The complaint
against Bennett is based on an article pub
lished in the New York Herald, i'll which
it was asserted that the Tertalita IN ming
scheme was Colossal bunco scaem,."
Joseph H. Real, president OF the COM
pany, has brought suit in the same court,
Individually, against Bennett, for $3.50, 900
damages.
Governor Larrabee, OF Iowa, hts is
sued his proclamation calling q special
election to be held in the three precinds Of
Monroe county on account of u surplus of
votes cast ut the last election. Th9 eec-
ton is to be only in the three precincts M d
for the Office of senator, md will be held
January II. The cont stants will be Sen.
ator Cassatt and Josiah t. Young.
The official statement of the vote in
Dakota on division shows that the majority
in North Dakotn against division was cx-
actly 10000. In South Dakota the INA.
jority for division was 1898.
Governor Lnrrabee has declined to in
terfere in the case of Chester Bellows, SEN
tcncoa to be hanged for the murder of
Alice Waterman, o. Charles City. The
execution will take place as planned. The
sheriff of Floyd county has obtained the
,one rro poral For t|,o o~o,,,,;o,, ~ T;..,.
the Chicago anarchist, AMI will use it in
hanging Bellows.
Edward L. Harper, the Fidelity Bank
wrecker Of Cincinnati, has been found
guilty and ssnten ced to ten ye,rs in the
Ohio penitentiary.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-23
INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

United States District Judge Sh ras
OF Dubuque, Iowa, has remanded all the
brewery and saloon cases before him to
the state courts. This does not prohibit
the removal o. tho liquor cases from the
state to the federal courts, but means that
when SO removed they will be at once re-
manded. Judge Love, Of Southern
Iowa district, received similar instruct
ions. This cuts off ali hope on the part Of
the liquor men aud Drawers of evading tbs
final issue by delays and appeals.
The last raj! has been laid on the Min
neapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic
railway, connecting Minneapolis direct
with sault Ste. Marie.
The Walruh brewery, at Lawrence,
kans's, has been closed by order of Judge
Brewer, Of the United States circuit court,
MS a common nuisance. Tho decree also
perpetual y enjoins the brewery from man
ufacturing or selling any intoxicating
liquors. This is the first brewery tuat has
been declared nuisancs under the pro-
hibitory law of Kansas, and the decree is
in accordance with the la.e decision of the
United States supreme court on the pro-
hibitory question.
The Seward Electric Light and Pow
der company has filed articles of incor-
poration at Lincoln, Neb. Capital stock,
$4,000.
The manner III which the $500, 900
raised by the Knights OF Labor and turned
over to the general executive committe 6
was disbursed is just now botbering the
members. At a meeting Of representatives
of all the local assemblies in Philadelphia
recently, resolutions were passed recon-
mending that formal demand on the ex-
ecutive board be made for an item.zed
statement of the expenditures for the past
wear.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-23
DAKOTA DOTS,

For the neglect Of stock Sheriff Ben
ton, OF Fargo. was iinel sos and costs.
The court construed it as cruelty to AMI :
mails.
The Indians are on their animal nio
grimsge to draw tho supply OF annuity
goods furnished by Uncle Sam at Fort
Bennett.
A jnder mt of $500 has en- rem
der.d again.t J. II. Drake. c,tor Of the
Aberdeen Pioneer, in favol q D. X.
Waliron.
--Deadwood claims the distinction of
having an anti fat society who abstain
from eating anything that will add 10 their
corpulency.
The report Of the horrible burning of
Michael Harris farmhouse in the western
par; OF Beedle county is fully confirmed
Mr. Harris and six children we're burned
to death. Mr.. Harris and one daughte,
escaped. The whole family were s!eep
when the fire broke out, and probably per
ished without awakiny.
The reception and ball by the Typo
graphical Union in Aberdeen will probably
take place on January II, as that is the an
niversary of the birth of Benjamin Frank
lin.
A new skating rink, 50 by 200 feet in
dimensions, is being erected at Aberdeen.
The freight rates on lumber from
Minnesota points to Aberdeen have been
advanced TO % cents per 100.
Much trouble is being experienced in
adjusting the fire losses at Hermosa.
ow ng to the complication of insurance
matters.
The Deadwood Weekly Herald has
discarded its ''patent insides."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-23
Price of o woman's Complexion.

Two thousand dollars is the price
woman sets upon her complexion. A
least this is the sum of damages whicl
Miss Frances Kelsey is about to elan
in the courts from a druggist WHOM
she alleges is responsible for much d
her facial beauty. Lawyer Thompson,
as attorney for Miss Kelsey, has pre-
pared the pleadings and complaint j,
the case. The documents set forth il
clear typewriter letters and legal phra
SEES that on June q last Miss Kelsel
called at the drug store and ordered
from the clerk 10 cents worth of "ilakt
white" which it was her intention t.
mix with bay rum and apply as a face
lotion. The following day the lady
rubbed the compound over her face
and it burned the cuticle till it peeled
away, and she was obliged to take 'c
her bed in great suffering. She was
confined for a week, and although the
wounds have healed the marks remain
and her face is badly SCARED and dis
figured. She concludes thatWhe drug
gist's clerk by mistake gave her zorro
sive sublimate instead of flake white.
Miss Kelsey estimates her special
damages at $l2 for loss of time and s.
for medical attendance.-G. Pa@
I 1En73 \ Globe
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-23

John Begley and J. p. Christensen
were buried in sand pit near Omahn, J..
p. Christensen being crushed 10 death and
Begley escaping with IL few scratches.
The new hr inch of the Fremont. Elk
horn and Missouri Valley railroad passing
through Hunkins is said to run through
one of tue richest and most fertile ranges
of country in the state.
The cars and the material for the Nor
folk street railway have arrived and work
hos begun on laying the track. The cleo
trio light plant for the new asylum building
has also arrived.
Charley Morris, former travelling
man of Lincoln, shielded at that place by
hanging. The cause is attributed to w.ns
and women.
Jake Buchanan, of Lincoln, while
working on the dome of q school, house at
Fremont fell and broke several ribs, be-
sides injuring himself otherwise.
"A hand car on which were four Sec
tion men was struck by a wild eng.ne on
THE Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley,
mar Fremont. Sam Panns was instantly
killed and Frank Figg severely bruised.
The Missouri Pacific has located o
depot ut Centerville, about fifteen miles
south of Lincoln. About forty acres Of
ground have been set aside for IL town site.
Petitions are in circulation at Lincoln
asking the governor to pardon Henry
Schlinker. WHO has been in the peniten-
tiary about six years for the murder of
Florence Booth.
A. N. Ball, an low, newspaper man.
took out licens, at Lincoln TO marry q
lady from Michigan aud about an hour
after was foual in an alley pp,rsntly
dead drunk.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-23

AhosG the papers laid before the Senate
the 18th was Il communication from he italian
resideats of Washington proposing to present
to he United Stat es u marble bust OF Gnribnldi
Referred 10 the committee or libr rs. The
following bills wcr- introduced and referred to
the committee nter-stn commerce /:
70 prohibit United States jud les and
courts fl III authorizing the borrowing
OF money by tho receivers of railroads
and other corporations beyond the amount OF
their annual net income. TO prohibit the mp.
pointn,cn1 of such receivers without evidence
of the tlnnncial condition of the company.
The resolution offered some days nso by Mr..
Plumb, to hive investigated the patent issued
TO MnSnus Swenson lust October, in connect ion
with the Innnufacture Of sugar from sor-
ghaun. WAS taken up and after some. debate
!opted. The point is that Sw nson was en-
ployed by the agricultural department while
making experiments out OF which the patent
resulted. Tho attorney general il directed to
Investigate the patent. and, if invalid and suit
can be nlaintniue in the name of the United
States. to commence suit promptly TO have the
patent carcelled, or it's ,lse by Swenson, or
Others claiming under kim, perpetually ell.
Joined. After the introduction of Il number Of
bills tho senate took NJ, tho bill introduced by
Mr.. Stewart to provide for tho issue Of coin Ger.
6hcates to circulate us money, and was address,
ed by that senator i'll support OF tho bill which
was referred to the committee on finances. The
sennte then went into executive session and ad-
ltr1lrDed soon after until Monday.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-23
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

Joseph Messell, of Muscatine, H.,
has returned from Bloomington, Ill, &c.
companied by his son Johnny, ten ye4rs
old, who was Kidnapped six weeks ago.
The 10Y WIS carrie off By tramp AMI
forced to beg for him, but escaped md
made h;s way TO Bloomington. The
father advertised extensively, and the
police recognized h m from his pictur, and
n titled the father. 1t is ons of the most
notable cases of kidnapping since thk of
Charlie Rose.
Henry S. Ives, OF the defunct bhk-
ing finn of H. S. Ives & Co., of New 1\rk,
has been arrested on the charge of grind
larceny, made bv Julius Dexter, president
OF the Cincinnati, Ham lson g. Dayton
Railroad company. The affidavit alleeed
that on June 6, 1886, drift of 500, 0(O,
sent to Ives as trustee, to be used as pls
payment of the sum due the Terre Hate
and Indianapolis road, WAS appropriate
by Ives for use OF the firm. Ives was hdd
in $25, 600 bail, which his sister furnished
III. 1OTIIbOu NlUOlCru, eOltOf OF JlD
Kansas City Times, was assaulted by Ii
Corrigan, the horsenan, and severely puns
ished. The cause of the assault is sup
posed to be m editorial published in the
Times on November 5, in which Corrigan
was numerically scored for his attack.
the previous day, on Thomas Mosier, o
Times reporter.
Mrs. w. H. Lnthrop, wife Of tho
presid ent of the First National bank Of
Racine, drowned herself in the lake. She
had been demented for some time past.
The jury in the case of Constables
Potts and Hamilton, of Des Noines,
charged with assault with intent to COM
NIT murder on Hardy, returned verdict
of not guilty. They shot Hardy when he
resisted, with n base ball ba, their efforts
10 arrest him for selling whisky. The case
took one week in trial, and was very in
teresting, the whole force Il the saloons
being thrown in an effort o convict the
officers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-23
PERSONAL.


James G. Blaine and Levi P. Morton
in Paris We're received by President Carnot
recently. They were presented by Min
lister McLane.
Usher, is dead.
Gen. Thomas Kirby Smith, of Phla-
delphla, died in New York the other day,
aged 67 years. He WAS chief of Gen.
Giants staff at the close OF the war.
Ice Kung, christianized Gilman IN,
and Miss Cora Palmer, pure blooded
white girl, were united in marriage ut Lin
coin, Neb by Rev. DR.. nj. Marine, OF the
Methodist Episcopal church.
The trustees of the Second Presbyte-
rian church of Dubuque, Iowa, have ell
ected r v. Henry Elliott Mot, OF New
bnryport, Mass, TO fill the pulpit recently
vacated by Rev. D. j. Burrel, who was
called to Minneapolis. Dr.. Mott is a
graduate of Princeton college. The salary
OF the Second Presbyterian pastorate is
$4,000 year.
-Engene Higgins OF Washington,
chief of the appointment division,
Gays that the report that he will
shortly retire from the public SER
vice is true. He desires TO better his
condition in life by going into business
for himself. He had retained his pres
cnt Office q: personal sacrifice much longer
than he intended. Another reason why he
has Mt resigned before was that he was
being sssaiied upon oil sides and he could
not bring himself to retreat under fire.
Rev. Chas. A. Berry of Wolverhamp-
ton, Eng, hos declined the call from Ply
mouth church, preferring to stay in Eng
land.
Hon. John V. Eusticc, Judge OF the
circuit court for the thirteenth judicial dis
trio: Of Illinois, who has been ill at his
home i'll Dixon for soma time, was taken
with relapse and cannot live.